What is CVE-2024-10468?

CVE-2024-10468 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-10-29.

How severe is CVE-2024-10468?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2024-10468

Potential race conditions in IndexedDB could have caused memory corruption, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 132 and Thunderbird < 132.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

Published 2024-10-29 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (31.1th percentile), scored 2026-10-05.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 31st percentile — 31.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox — versions unspecified
Mozilla Thunderbird — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Permissions Required, Issue Tracking)
www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-55/ (Vendor Advisory)
www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-59/ (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-10468?: CVE-2024-10468 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-10-29.
How severe is CVE-2024-10468?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.